Muñoz, Felipita

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5-31-1971

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(born in c. 1885) Fiesta de María Santísima en Arroyo Hondo, velorios-procesiones on the fields to ask for rain, good harvests, and other blessings; saumerios [incense], oraciones, misa y baile; types of dances, verses. Fiesta de San Gerónimo: carreras de indios, los chifunetes (indios pintados la cara) y el palo encebado. Common children's diseases: viruela [smallpox] y garrotillo [whooping cough]; and hidropesía in adult people. Home remedies: unto o grasa de marrano para curar la viruela y las hierbas: el chan, el poleo para la fiebre, el gengibre y la hierba buena para la fiebre, berbena y el llanten in the treatment of fever, headaches y las malvas para la amidgalitis [Tonsilitis]. Casorios [wedding customs], respect to elders. Los bailes, life in the village: not many grocery stores, everybody farmed and eat their crops and meats, making panochas, chicos, tamales, tortillas. La escuela solo estaba abierta tres meses en invierno. Uno no aprendía nada [her schooling experience]. She doesn't speak English, but understand it. Her life as a young adult: working as a maid; the economy before and after NM became a state compared to the current time. In the past people used to work the land, were faithful to God. Now people are faithful to money and material things. Parenting, child upbringing, consumerism, morals and ethics in the present. Antes todo era mejor: la comida y las costumbres. News spread faster via TV, there was no TV in the past. People used to live as a family or community. Greed, and money have damaged people.

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